"The promptings of the Holy Ghost will always be sufficient for our needs if we keep to the covenant path. Our path is uphill most days, but the help we receive for the climb is literally divine." --Elaine S. Dalton
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen! - Samuel Adams
Well, the point is that they are predicting the possibility of something bigger happening in the near-ish future. And that the 4.7 was enough to cause damage.
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"The promptings of the Holy Ghost will always be sufficient for our needs if we keep to the covenant path. Our path is uphill most days, but the help we receive for the climb is literally divine." --Elaine S. Dalton
I guess I'm spoiled by having grown up in California, where they actually build buildings in a sturdy manner. I've literally slept through 6.0 quakes. I've experienced a 7.2, and that was scary.
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If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen! - Samuel Adams
It's like when there's a blizzard in Colorado. Not too big of a deal. They are used to it and know how to deal with it and/or wait it out. Have a freak blizzard in NM, though and watch out. Big mess.
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"The promptings of the Holy Ghost will always be sufficient for our needs if we keep to the covenant path. Our path is uphill most days, but the help we receive for the climb is literally divine." --Elaine S. Dalton
I think it is the swarm of earthquakes that is concerning - not the magnitude at this point, that the Off the Oregon coast is another place of odd earthquake swarming.